Unknown Island (1948)
May 31, 2010Prehistoric Lost World
Routine B-budget lost world fantasy with a group of explorers stranded on an island filled with dinosaurs
Richard Denning
The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Jan 5, 2000Prehistoric Monster
A classic 1950s monster movie where an expedition up the Amazon discovers a Gill Man. Here an average story is propelled into the memorable by Jack Arnold's moody direction. Two sequels followed.
Target Earth (1954)
Jun 6, 2009Alien Invasion
An entry from the 1950s alien invader film fad. This starts well with survivors finding themselves in a deserted city but takes a nosedive with the introduction of a clunky robot
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
Nov 15, 2018Atomically-Revived Zombies
Atomic became the explain-all buzzword for almost every monster movie of the 1950s.This is the novelty of the one and only atomic zombie film, although at heart is no more than a 1940s mad scientist film
Day the World Ended (1955)
Sep 5, 2002After the Nuclear Holocaust
One of the first films from Roger Corman. Set among a group of survivors in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear holocaust, Corman blatantly steals the plot from Five and adds a mutant monster to the mix
The Black Scorpion (1957)
Sep 3, 2000Giant Scorpions
This was designed as a copy of the giant ant film Them! substituting scorpions for ants. The plot is average but what stands it out are the excellent stop-motion animated effects from King Kong creator Willis O’Brien
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Mar 18, 2005Horror Anthology
With the success of the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations starring Vincent Price, this was a copycat attempt that cast Price in a trio of tales adapted from another writer of American horror stories, Nathaniel Hawthorne